• starelfsc2@sh.itjust.works
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    11 months ago

    Sometimes very dangerous, as an example a company may pay for security updates for windows XP, but you won’t get these updates. Say someone takes a look at what changed, finds a buffer overflow or other easily exploited bug, embeds that in a program, and pays to have it bundled with some freeware. One of these exploits could even infect you just from visiting a webpage.

    Security updates are annoying but they’re the one kind of update Microsoft is actually justified in pushing